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BROOKLYN, N. Y.. 




HIS LOVE OF HOME 

^^As love ot native land," the old man said, 
«'Er stars and stripes a-wavin' overhead, 
Er nearest kith-and-kin, er daily bread, 
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How we ever saved the child! 
Doc he d give her up, and said 
(i\s I stood there by the bed 
Sort o' foohn' with her hair 
On the hot wet piller there^ 
*'Wuz no use!" — And at them-air 
Very words she waked and smiled — 
Yes, and hiowed me. And that's where 
I broke down, and simply jes 
Bellered like a boy — I guess! — 






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Alius belt I didnt cry 
But wuz laughin', — and I wuz, — - 
(Men dorit cry like women does!] 
Well, right then and there I felt 
'T 'uz her mother's doin's, and, 
Jes like to myse'f, I knelt, 
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So I've raised her, you might say^ 
Stric'ly in the narrer way 
'At her mother walked therein — 
Not so quite religiously^ 
Yit still strivin'-like to do 
Ever' thing a father could 
Do he knowed the mother would 
Ef she'd lived. — And now all's through 
And r got her home ag'in — 
Home ag'in with me! 






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Still he don't count much, you know, 
In the line o' company — 
Lonesome, 'peared-like, 'most as me 
So, as / say, I' bin so 
Special lonesome-like and blue, 
With Elviry, like she's bin, 
'Way so much, last two er three 
Year'. — But now she's home ag'in- 
Home ag'in with me! 






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Me and Jonas — gay and spry, — .^ 

We jes cat up, all the way! — ^Aj4 

Yes, and sung! — tel, blame it! I '^'^%^. 

Keyed my voice up 'bout as high 
As when — days 'at I wuz young — 
"Buckwheat-notes" wuz all they sung. 
Jonas bantered me, and 'greed 
To sing one 'at town-folks sing //A^/ 

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Gittin' home! — and things she had 
To inquire about, and talk — 
^^^5^^ Plowin', plantin', and the stock — - 
News o' neighberhood; and how 
Wuz the Deem-girls doin' now, 
Sence that-air young chicken-hawk 
They was *'tamin'" soared away 
With their settin'-hen, one day? — 
(Said she'd got Mame's postal-card 
i^'Bout it, very day 'at she 

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How wuz pro-duce — eggs, and lard? — 

Er wuz stores still claimin' "hard 

Times," as usual? And, says she, 

Troubled-like, '* How's Deedie — say? 

Sence pore child e-loped away 

And got back, and goin' to 'ply 

Fer school-license by and by — 

And where's 'Lijy workin' at? 

And how's *Aunt' and * Uncle Jake'? 

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Sweetest thing: she ever saw! — 
Must run 'crosst and see 'em, too, 
Soon as she turned in and got 
Supper fer us — smokin'-hot— 
And the * dishes' all wuz through, — -** 
S/'cI? a supper! W'y, I set 
There and et, and et, and et !— 
Jes et on, tel Jonas he 
Pushed his chair back, laughed, and says 
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And we 
All laughed then, tel 'Viry she 
Lit the lamp — and I give in! — 
Riz and kissed her: "Heaven bless 
You!" says I — "you're home ag' in- 
Same old dimple in your chin, 
Same white apern," I-says-ee, 
"Same sweet girl, and good to see 
As your juother ust to be, — 
And r got you home ag'in — 

Home ag'in with me!" . . . 








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And by and by 
Heerd Elviry, soft and low. 
At the organ, kind o' go 
A mi-anderin' up and down 
With her fingers 'mongst the keys 
"Vacant Chair" and "Old Cam 

Groun'." 

Dusk was moist-like, with a b 
Lazin' round the locus'-trees . 
Heerd the bosses champin', an 
Jonas ieedin' — and the hogs — 
Yes, and katydids and frogs — 
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Also whipperwills. — My land!— 
All so mournful ever' where— 
Them out here, and her in there,— 
That the whole thing railly 'peared 
'Most like 'tendin' Services! 
Anyway^ I must 'a' jes 
Kind o' drapped asleep, I guess; 
'Cause when Jonas must 'a' passed 
Me, a-comin' in, I knowed 
Nothin' of it — yit it seemed 
Sort o' like I kind o' dreamed 
'Bout him, too, a-slippin' in, 





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And a-watchin' back to see 
Ef I wiiz asleep — and then 
Passin' in where 'Viry wuz — 
And where, I declare, it does 
'Pear to me I heerd him say. 
Wild and glad and whisperin' — 
'Peared-like heerd him say, says-ee, 
**Ah ! r got you home ag'in — 
Home ag'in witn me 








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